Música Nueva 5: Big Band Poetry Jam & Beyond

featuring GRAMMY winners 

Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

May 11-12, 2012 | 8PM

Guest Curator: Angel R. Rodríguez, Sr.

Featuring Special Guests:

Tony Award-winning creator of Broadway’s In the Heights Lin-Manuel Miranda

DJ Logic

Poets

Angel R. Rodríguez, Sr.

Sandra María Esteves

Tato Laviera

Odilia Rivera Santos

Caridad “La Bruja” De La Luz

Circa ‘95 (PattyDukes & RephStar)

Christopher “Chilo” Cajigas

Arrangers

Arturo O’Farrill

Todd Bashore

Adam Kromelow

Jason Lindner

Adam O’Farrill

Jay Rodríguez

Bill Ware

GRAMMY winners Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra’s fifth annual new music concert features a spoken word jam curated by poet, musician, and visionary Angel R. Rodriguez, Sr., and includes a lineup of guest poets, who will be accompanied by the ALJO. DJ Logic will help the Orchestra and poets mix the classic sound of boogaloo, mambo, and salsa with hip-hop, acid jazz, and alternative improvisation in this celebration of the Latino community and the Nuyorican poetry movement! 

2537 Broadway at 95th Street, NYC

For tickets go to:

www.symphonyspace.org

call 212.864.5400 or visit the box office

General Admission $50/$40/$30

Students/Seniors/Children $15

Symphony Space Members $40/$32/$24